- Date
- November 22, 1992, 13:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N893WALearjet 25B
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921122047509A
- Case key
- 11888
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged distance and altitude which resulted in a landing touchdown with insufficient runway length remaining and a subsequent landing overrun. Contributing was the pilot's failure to initiate a go around, a tailwind, and a downsloping runway.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot was on an ILS approach to runway 28 when he reported that he touched down beyond the point at which he intended to land. The pilot was landing with a tailwind. The pilot reported heavy rain at the time and he added power to cushion the landing, which contributed to the location of the touchdown point. The copilot stated that he expected the pilot to do a go around. According to witnesses the airplane landed at a location with about 2000 to 2800 feet of runway distance remaining. The airplane went off the end of the runway and collided with the localizer transmitter facility and a fence. The landing gear collapsed during the impact sequence. The runway is 6015 feet long and the last 2000 feet downslopes at about a 0.85% gradient. According to lear jet, the landing distances based on the prevailing conditions, respectively, for a dry and wet runway are about 3350 and 4690 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N893WA
- Reported as
- Learjet 25B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 169
- Airframe hours
- 8,995
- Engine
- GE CJ 610-6, 2,950 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Flight Operations Inc
- Registered owner
- Air Stewart Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 13, 1992 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- LUK · Cincinnati, OH
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CLE · Cleveland
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,642 total · 247 in this make and model · 5,175 as pilot in command · 170 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.